Emerging Trend of Dietary Patterns as a Risk Factor of Cardiovascular Disease in Urban Chennai Women
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Nutrition - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study was carried out to study the nutrient intake and anthropometric measures of two different ethnic community women. 365 women in the age group of 30-45 years belonging to two different socio-cultural groups namely Tamil speaking or any of the other South Indian languages and those from Rajasthan primarily from the Marwari community and three different socio-economic groups of high, middle and low-income groups residing in Chennai were selected as samples for the study. Diet patterns of the subjects were assessed from the responses elucidated from the questionnaire including the meal patterns, snacking frequency, dining out frequency. Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was employed to ascertain the dietary diversity among the various food groups. 24hour dietary recall method was adopted to assess the nutrient intake on a week day and a weekend day using standardized cups and measures. Dietcal software was employed to calculate the nutrient intake of the subjects. Dietary diversity scores were obtained by computations from food frequency questionnaire using a probit regression model. Nutrient intakes were analyzed in terms of energy intake and macro nutrient intake and their share towards the energy intake was calculated and the risk factor towards the development of cardio vascular disease was analyzed. The average protein intake was found to be higher among the non-vegetarian population (98.83 + 7.82) of South Indian women followed by the middle-income group (81.10 + 5.89) of West Indian women. Mean Anthropometric measures of the subjects projected a risk towards higher Body mass index, Waist to Hip ratio (>= 0.8) and Waist to Height Ratio (>= 0.5).
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Varalakshmi RS
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